Elena Cotta

Elena Cotta Biography

Elena Cotta (born 19 August 1931) is an Italian stage, film and television actress.

Life and career

Born in Milan, at young age Cotta won a scholarship to attend the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico; after just one year she quit the Academy to enter the stage company "La compagnia dei giovani". In 1975 she founded her own company together with her husband, the actor Carlo Alighiero.

Cotta made her film debut in 1951, in Miracolo a Viggiù. In 2000 she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress at AFI award and FCCA Award for her performance in Kate Woods' Looking for Alibrandi. In 2013, at 82 years old, she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her performance in Via Castellana Bandiera, in which she played an Albanian illegal immigrant.

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